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  • Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

    Teacher   School   Cinema  
  • Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

    James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.117, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • I was a film student. I became an actor but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

    Actors   Students   Film  
    "Mulroney and Amazing". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. June 2002.
  • Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find out is an occult and arcane language designed only for the purpose of excluding those who have not mastered it and giving academic rewards to those who have. No one with any literacy, taste or intelligence would want to teach these courses, so the bona fide definition of people teaching them are people who are incapable of teaching anything else.

    "Lights, Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology." by David Weddle, articles.latimes.com. July 13, 2003.
  • I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn't want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when when you're a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.

    Writing   Men   Directors  
    "Francis Ford Coppola on Lucas, an 'ambitious' new movie, and his box set". Interview with Solvej Schou, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2012.
  • Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

    Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 8, 2002.
  • Upon its debut, The Room was a spectacular bomb, pulling in all of $1,800 during its initial two-week Los Angeles run. It wasn't until the last weekend of the film's short release that the seeds of its eventual cultural salvation were planted. While passing a movie theater, two young film students named Michael Rousselet and Scott Gairdner noticed a sign on the ticket booth that read: NO REFUNDS. Below the sign was this blurb from a review: “Watching this film is like getting stabbed in the head.” They were sold.

    Running   Weekend   Two  
    Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell (2014). “The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
  • It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

    People   World   Students  
  • I have somewhat lost my enthusiasm in the last years. Mainly because film students using digital video these days have not really produced anything which is more than superficial or simplistic; so I have my doubts.

    Years   Doubt   Video  
    Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.
  • When I talk to film students, I always say, "Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes," because that's such a great learning tool.

    Dvds   Tools   Looks  
    Source: collider.com
  • I think too many film students in America are losing the artistry and not learning lighting the right way.

    Thinking   America   Way  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • I like doing commentary. As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things. I often like the technical commentaries myself.

    Source: collider.com
  • I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor. That was my goal. I didn't believe I had the physical beauty that I'd seen projected and advertised in movies, in theater. It just wasn't for me.

    "Actress Pam Grier". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2010.
  • When I first came out, I was a film student and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did. But I did it in the most creative way possible.

    Mom   Hair   Lunch  
    Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 17, 2013.
  • And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.

  • I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts combined. Students are always asking me for advice, and I tell them that they have to be enthusiastic, because it's hard work. The only way to enjoy it is to be totally immersed. If you don't get involved on that level, it could be a very miserable job. I only have one regret about my career: I'm sorry that we are not making silent movies any more. That is the purest art form I can imagine.

    Movie   Music   Art  
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